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Nicki Minaj took to Twitter to air her grievances about her latest album Queen losing the number one spot to Travis Scott’s Astroworld. But she didn’t just bring Scott into the drama, she also mentioned Kylie Jenner and their baby Stormi. It’s messy and strange.
On Sunday, August 19, the numbers for the last week’s Top 200 Billboard Chart came out and Scott secured the number one spot again and Minaj was seated at number two.
After the numbers dropped Minaj wasn’t happy. She shared a screenshot of one of Jenner’s Instagram posts promoting Astroworld and the upcoming tour that has yet to be announced. Minaj tweeted that Scott sold 50,000 “season passes” for his non-existent tour off of Jenner’s post.
“He knows he doesn’t have the #1 album this week,” she tweeted.
Travis sold over 50K of these. With no requirement of redeeming the album! With no dates for a tour, etc. I spoke to him. He knows he doesn’t have the #1 album this week. I love my fans for the #1 album in AMERICA! I’ll explain on #QueenRadio 4 albums in, #1 in 86 countries ♥️ pic.twitter.com/CiYEuczgm3
— Mrs. Petty (@NICKIMINAJ) August 19, 2018
Minaj went on to tweet about her album sales and how she “lost out on” 12 hours of sales and that she held back in her last Best Radio 1 show, Queen Radio. But on August 21 during her next show, she’ll explain it all.
My first album sold 400K. No one is doing that with debut albums now. So I’m so grateful. I lost out on 12 hours of sales and did 200K in one week after I was supposedly cancelled. I bit my tongue last #QueenRadio but I won’t On Tuesday. I love you guys so much
— Mrs. Petty (@NICKIMINAJ) August 19, 2018
Minaj wasn’t done though. She continued tweeting about Scott and Jenner and album sales. She tweeted that Scott has been selling clothes and has been doing so even before his album came out. She said that Billboard is looking to change this rule. She’s insinuating that all the sales made from Scott’s website get included into the album sales number for the Billboard Top 200 Chart even if the album wasn’t sold. So all of Scott’s clothing sales and the “season passes” Jenner promoted all go to his album sales number.
I looked at the numbers the Carters, Kanye, Nas, etc recently did. Travis sold 200K in his first week of clothes alone. I spoke to him last night & he said he’s been selling clothes b4 the music. Billboard says they’ll change the rules cuz of this, so it should be changed now!
— Mrs. Petty (@NICKIMINAJ) August 19, 2018
According to Billboard, their album numbers are a combination of album data and streaming numbers. They describe the Top 200 Chart ranking as:
“The week’s most popular albums across all genres, ranked by album sales, audio on-demand streaming activity and digital sales of tracks from albums as compiled by Nielsen Music.”
Nielsen Music says they measure their music sales through “buying both in-store and digitally.” They state that they only measure the sales of “what albums, singles and music videos people are buying.”
Minaj continued her tweeting storm to drag Stormi into the whole mess too. She posted that Scott’s album is only doing numbers still is because Jenner is promoting it saying she and Stormi are going on tour with him.
I put my blood sweat & tears in writing a dope album only for Travis Scott to have Kylie Jenner post a tour pass telling ppl to come see her & Stormi. lol. Im actually laughing. #Queen broke the record of being number 1 in 86 countries. Thank Jesus & thank you to my fans.
— Mrs. Petty (@NICKIMINAJ) August 19, 2018
She went on to tweet that she is being sarcastic and is having a great time celebrating her number one in 86 countries.
People are calling me thinking I’m huffing & puffing. Omg y’all this is sarcasm/dry humor. Yikes. I’m having the most iconNIC time. Come let me kiss you. 😩😘😘😘 Who’s coming to the secret show? When people call me & hear me crackin up laughing they seem so puzzled. Loosen up 😅
— Mrs. Petty (@NICKIMINAJ) August 19, 2018
So who do you have, Stormi or Minaj?
